{"id":188052,"date":"2025-10-03T20:20:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T20:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/188052\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T20:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T20:20:10","slug":"reba-stars-to-reunite-as-joanna-garcia-swisher-sets-happys-place-season-2-guest-star-arc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/188052\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Reba\u2019 Stars to Reunite as JoAnna Garcia Swisher Sets \u2018Happy\u2019s Place\u2019 Season 2 Guest Star Arc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There will be another \u201cReba\u201d reunion on \u201cHappy\u2019s Place,\u201d with JoAnna Garcia Swisher coming on board for Season 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Swisher\u00a0will join the NBC sitcom\u2019s second season as a guest star, adding to the lineup of \u201cReba\u201d stars appearing on \u201cHappy\u2019s Place\u201d after\u00a0Steve Howey and Christopher Rich made cameos in Season 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">More from TheWrap<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Swisher will play Kenzie, a local Knoxville influencer who has been hired to represent Happy\u2019s Place for their upcoming social media marketing campaign and all of it is much to Bobbie\u2019s chagrin, per the official character description.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She joins Season 2 guest stars Carol Kane (\u201cTaxi,\u201d \u201cUnbreakable Kimmy Schmidt\u201d), Christopher Lloyd \u00a0(\u201cTaxi,\u201d \u201cBack to the Future,\u201d \u201cThe Addams Family\u201d) and Cheri Oteri (\u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d).<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/powerwomensummit2025.splashthat.com\/Announcement\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"247\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/56ef5fd7654a006dc1be1ecc929e6830.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Getting Swisher on the show has been a priority for both Reba McEntire, who played Swisher\u2019s on-screen mom on \u201cReba,\u201d as well as series co-creator Kevin Abbott, who told press in August that they were working hard on finding the right role for Swisher.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWe really, really want JoAnna to be on the show,\u201d Abbott said at the time. \u201cWe have a couple of roles that we are juggling to decide which would be the most fun for her \u2014 because we don\u2019t want to bring somebody on and just have them be on. We want to bring them on and have, even if it\u2019s just for us, a fun reason that they are playing the role that they are playing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Produced by Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, \u201cHappy\u2019s Place\u201d is created by Kevin Abbott and Julie Abbott, who executive produce alongside McEntire, Michael Hanel, Mindy Schultheis, Matt Berry and Pamela Fryman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Swisher is repped by UTA, Untitled, Shelter PR<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cHappy\u2019s Place\u201d Season 2 premieres on NBC on Friday, Nov. 7 at 8 p.m. ET\/PT.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/joanna-garcia-swisher-happys-place-season-2-guest-star-reba\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:\u2018Reba\u2019 Stars to Reunite as JoAnna Garcia Swisher Sets \u2018Happy\u2019s Place\u2019 Season 2 Guest Star Arc;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">\u2018Reba\u2019 Stars to Reunite as JoAnna Garcia Swisher Sets \u2018Happy\u2019s Place\u2019 Season 2 Guest Star Arc<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:TheWrap;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">TheWrap<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There will be another \u201cReba\u201d reunion on \u201cHappy\u2019s Place,\u201d with JoAnna Garcia Swisher coming on board for Season&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,71084,94267,94268,75,71085,94264,94266,94265,348],"class_list":["post-188052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-christopher-lloyd","tag-christopher-rich","tag-danette-anderson","tag-entertainment","tag-happys-place","tag-joanna-garcia-swisher","tag-kevin-abbott","tag-reba","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}